What book are you - Coleytheft

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

My score on The Which book are you? Test:
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Moby Dick
(You are 65% Great Book)
"Among the greatest adventure books ever penned, you charter the development of both deeply sophisticated characters and a genuinely artistic plot. Dynamic, thrilling and gripping, you are Moby Dick - the tale of the white whale..

This book, amongst other things, explores the ideas of hidden depths. Both the ways of Moby Dick, and the ocean he lives in, are secret. You are similar, in as far as you are both deep and secretive. Nobody could ever know every inch of you, you are too big a personality. You are also destructive, prone to terrible acts of disregard for the carefully constructed personas of others. Just as the ocean often sweeps indifferently across whole coastlines of urban sprawl, so you effortlessly crush the smaller people around you. You are, however, capable of great compassion. As the ocean harbours life, carrying more gentleness in its murky depths than anywhere else, so you have a deeply kind and caring nature bubbling beneath your surface.

As Ishmael tries, in the opening pages of Moby-Dick, to offer a simple collection of literary excerpts mentioning whales, he discovers that, throughout history, the whale has taken on an incredible multiplicity of meanings. Over the course of the novel, he makes use of nearly every discipline known to man in his attempts to understand the essential nature of the whale. Each of these systems of knowledge, however, including art, taxonomy, and phrenology, fails to give an adequate account. The multiplicity of approaches that Ishmael takes, coupled with his compulsive need to assert his authority as a narrator and the frequent references to the limits of observation (men cannot see the depths of the ocean, for example), suggest that human knowledge is always limited and insufficient.

When it comes to Moby Dick, the great white whale, himself, this limitation takes on allegorical significance. The ways of Moby Dick, like those of the Christian God, are unknowable to man, and thus trying to interpret them, as Ahab does, is inevitably futile and often fatal.
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[Marl]

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<TD>A Clockwork Orange is perhaps one of the most bold works of literature ever penned. It charts a lengthy although ultimately circular change of character, concerned with a protagonist who is truly 'fucked up'. Despite the best attempts at the outside world to change him, he remains as he is. Chaotic, passionate, vivid and robust - you are the proud and destructive Clockwork Orange. You are a wild person, often driven by impulse and prone to ignore rationality over raw passion. You are intelligent, and well aware of the weaknesses of your personality, but you are also aware of the strengths. Where others are prone to indecision and a lack of originality, you are bold, imposing and often artistic. You can be violent, not neccessary physically, but certainly emotionally - imposing your will on others through aggressive dominance. Clockwork and Orange are not words which traditionally go together. Clockwork is a mechanical method of creating artificial movement, where an Organe is an organic creation. Trying to force one to work with the other will always be foolish. Alex, the main character, is something of an Orange. He is an organic person, growing and changing - even evolving - but ultimately sticking to his nature as an orange. The clockwork seems to represent the word around him, trying to change him and force him into a certain way of life - perhaps for his own good - but ultimately doomed to fail. The freedom of individuals to make choices becomes problematic when those choices undermine the safety and stability of society, and in A Clockwork Orange, the state is willing to protect society by taking away freedom of choice and replacing it with prescribed good behavior. In Alex’s world, both the unfettered power of the individual and the unfettered power of the state prove dangerous. Alex steals, rapes, and murders merely because it feels good, but when his violent impulses are taken away, the result is equally as dangerous, simply because freedom of choice, a fundamental element of humanity, has been taken away. </TD></TR>
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[Satira]

I'm the Count of Monte Cristo. I thought I would share since he did steal this from my myspace bulletin.

[Back]

I am 66% the Count of Monte C

The Count of Monte Cristo is a book which discusses a great many themes, and displays varray of possible conclusions to take from the ideas discussed. It centres around one fascinatingly undefined character who, through the course of the book, takes on many names and many faces, as much seeking his own, true one as anything else. Richly diverse, fantasticaly complex and inspiringly original, you are the Count of Monte Cristo. Emotional turmoil is something you are not alien to. You display great insight to the human condition, often realising things about yourself and others that lesser minds could not spot. This, however, often leads to great complexities both in your mind and in your heart, meaning you are sometimes confronted with personal identity issues. Because you see that life is not as simple as black and white, you are excellent at seeing from more than one perspective, demonstrating a depth of character which is almost unique to people of your emotional complexity. Edmond Dantès, the protagonist, resolves to take justice into his own hands because he is dismayed by the limitations of society’s criminal justice system. Societal justice has allowed his enemies to slip through the cracks, going unpunished for the heinous crimes they have committed against him. Moreover, even if his enemies’ crimes were uncovered, Dantès does not believe that their punishment would be true justice. Though his enemies have caused him years of emotional anguish, the most that they themselves would be forced to suffer would be a few seconds of pain, followed by death. Considering himself an agent of Providence, Dantès aims to carry out divine justice where he feels human justice has failed. He sets out to punish his enemies as he believes they should be punished: by destroying all that is dear to them, just as they have done to him. Yet what Dantès ultimately learns, as he sometimes wreaks havoc in the lives of the innocent as well as the guilty, is that justice carried out by human beings is inherently limited. The limits of such justice lie in the limits of human beings themselves. Lacking God’s omniscience and omnipotence, human beings are simply not capable of—or justified in—carrying out the work of Providence. Dumas’s final message in this epic work of crime and punishment is that human beings must simply resign themselves to allowing God to reward and punish—when and how God sees fit.

[Back]

A Clockwork Orange

Ultraviolent old droog.

[Skirmisher]

Monte Cristo here also.

[Gan]

the Count of Monte C
You are 66% Great Book

[Marl]

wow i cant edit the shitty code they gave me

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

My book is pretty good for me too, btw.

[FinallyDomesticated]

A Clockwork Orange

I'll have to read this book before I decide if this is a good thing or a bad thing.

[Stanley Burrell]

I am 62% Moby Dick, dick and dicked.

Here's a sea creature:

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[Back]

Its only an assumption of mine that if through your choices you come up as “A Clockwork Orange”*(good reading, btw) you might be something of an antidisestabilshmentarian. Possibly an anarchist?

[Stanley Burrell]

And prefer to play Beethoven when you murder people.

[Back]

And prefer to play Beethoven when you murder people.

Kubrik’s touch.

[TheEschaton]

Same, the Count. IT says I'm 69% Great Book, and scored higher than 99% of men my age in Great Books.

[Marl]

Its only an assumption of mine that if through your choices you come up as “A Clockwork Orange”*(good reading, btw) you might be something of an antidisestabilshmentarian. Possibly an anarchist?

actually most of the answers were directed to "knowledgable eyes///intellegent opposite sex etc" only one i would say was anarchistlike and that was doing and saying whatever i want without counsequences

[Snapp]

1984
You are 51% Great Book

[SpunGirl]

Haha, I'm 1984. A snippet:

You are well thought out, and intelligent, as well as balanced in your intentions. You can, however, be rather crude and even blunt. You have a general distatse for those who ignore the truth, especially when they willfully blind themselves to the dangers of their own behaviour. You do your best to try and snap people out of it, and as a rule you are leaned toward helping others.

You do, however, often find yourself becomming critical and even harsh in your analysis, usually because you feel people are not accepting the truth and need to be shown the foolishness of their position.

I think that describes me pretty well.

-K

[Sean]

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[Bobmuhthol]

I got A Clockwork Orange too.

[Amber]

I got 1984 too, but I don't think it's really me.

[Skeeter]

I'm a clockwork orange. oddly this doesn't surprise me.

[Sean of the Thread]

61% Moby Dick. You scored 5 inches more than other men your age.


All bullshit aside it's definitely one of my favorite pieces of literature.

(besides the sports section this morning)

[Ilvane]

I was "The Count of Monte Cristo" too.

Angela

[Drew]

My boxing nickname is The Count of Monte Fisto but I didn't get that book, sad.

[thornhappy]

57 percent Clockwork Orange, but I'm not sure how well it fits.

[The Ponzzz]

A Clockwork Orange
You are 63% Great Book

[AestheticDeath]

51% Nineteen Eighty-Four - Description fits me too

Makes me sad that they say I only scored higher then 3% of other people....

[Miss X]

51% 1984.

[zhelas]

Moby Dick
You are 61% Great Book

How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 99% on Great Book

[TheEschaton]

are there only 4 books? Moby Dick, Clockwork ORange, 1984, and Count of Monte Cristo?

-TheE-

[Skeeter]

apparently so.

That's lamer than FDR's legs.

[TheEschaton]

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What....too soon?

-TheE-

[Sean]

Na I got a different one.